Sammelband of Six Late 18th-Century American Ordination Sermons

V.p.: v.i., 1797. Very Good. V.p.: v.i., 1797-1799. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary limp blue paste-paper boards. Boards a bit rubbed, most notably along spine, textblock uniformly toned, binding a bit tight with text along gutter edges of some leaves just barely visible, else a Very Good, sound copy, all contents collated complete. Contemporary ownership signature in pencil on rear pastedown of a Mary Hawthorne Bunker. Contents as follows:

1. Moses Adams. "A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Noyes, to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church in Needham, July 10, 1799." Printed at the Minerva Press in Dedham, by Herman Mann, 1799. 27,[1]pp. EVANS 35076.

2. Stephen Palmer. "A Sermon, Delivered at Rowley, Second Parish, July 7, 1797. At the Ordination of the Rev. Isaac Braman, to the Pastoral Care of the Second Church and Society, in that town." Dedham: Nathaniel and Benjamin Heaton, 1797. 35,[1]pp. ESTC W003029; EVANS 32636; SABIN 58373.

3. Nathaniel Sermon. "A Sermon, Preached at the Installation of the Reverend William Emerson, to the Pastoral Care of the First Church in Boston, on the 16th of October, 1799." Boston: Samuel Hall, 1799. 30,[2]pp. ESTC W29258; EVANS 36409.

4. Abel Holmes. "A Sermon, Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Whitaker to the Pastoral Care of the Church and Society in Sharon, Massachusetts, February 27, 1799." Dedham: Herman Mann, 1799. 49,[3]pp. EVANS 36530.

5. Ezra Ripley. "A Sermon, Delivered at York, October 10, 1798, at the Ordination of the Rev. Rosewell Messinger, Pastoral Charge of the First Church as Colleague Pastor, with the Rev. Isaac Lyman." Portsmouth, NH: Printed by Charles Peirce, at the Oracle-Press, No. 5. Daniel-Street, 1798. 24pp. EVANS 34471; SABIN 71513

6. Enos Hitchcock. "A Sermon, Delivered at Wrentham, at the Ordination of the Rev. Elisha Fisk, June the 12th, 1799." Providence: Bennett Wheeler, 1799. 28pp. ALDEN 1620; EVANS 35624; SABIN 32257.